[NBLUG/talk] Distributing OpenOffice to schools

[Lincoln Peters]

Perhaps I should talk to the Computer Recycling Center (http://www.crc.org/) 
and see if that can be arranged?  I'm sure that they would be interested in 
Linux, OpenOffice, and other open-source, as they would not have to pay for 
ANY of the software they would put on those computers.




Lincoln




>From: Todd Cary <todd at aristesoftware.com>
>Reply-To: talk at nblug.org
>To: talk at nblug.org
>Subject: Re: [NBLUG/talk] Distributing OpenOffice to schools
>Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 19:53:54 -0700
>
>Lincoln -
>
>My local Rotary club, Petaluma Valley Rotary Club, each year gives out a 
>dictionary to every third grader in the Petaluma school districts (over 
>4,000 have been given out so far).  A project of this type would certainly 
>be of interest if it could be part of something with a little more scope 
>e.g. providing refurbished computers with Linux that could be used for 
>Internet access.
>
>Just an idea.....
>
>Todd
>

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